delectatur

• “Dei amicus esse non potest qui mundi studiis delectatur; ut hanc, formam videas munda cor, serena cor,”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “_Turpione Ambivio magis delectatur, qui in primâ caveâ spectat; delectatur tamen etiam qui in ultimâ.”

  A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements

• “Jam vero, quoad delectum ciborum attinet, in jejuniis arbitramur omne id detrahendum esse carni, unde redditur ferocior, et quo delectatur impensius, unde existunt fomenta carni, sive pisces sint, sive carnes, sive aromata, delitiaeve aut praestantia vina.”

  The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.

• “After speaking also _De salsamentis_ (rendered ‘_salt meat_, beef, pork, &c.,’ by Jortin, but which _Liber Cure Cocorum_ authorises us in translating ‘Sauces’ [85]), _quibus vulgus mirum in modum delectatur_, he says the English would be more healthy if their windows were made so as to shut out noxious winds, and then continues,”

  Early English Meals and Manners

• “[261] "Vulgus interdum," says Cicero, "non probandum oratorem probat, sed probat sine comparatione, cùm à mediocri aut etiam â malo delectatur; eo est contentus: esse melius sentit: illud quod est, qualecunque est, probat.”

  Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity

• “His words are: Ubicunque congregantur simul viri et fomino, ibi mens non est intenta et devota: nam inter celebrandum missam et sacrificia, fomino et viri mutuis aspectibus, signis, ac nutibus accendunt pravorum appetitum, et desideriorum suorum ignes: et quando hoc non fieret, saltem humana fragilitas delectatur mutuo et reciproco aspectu; et ita non potest esse mens quieta, attenta, et devota.”

  The Koran (Al-Qur'an)

• “* [1751] In Deo quadam dulcedine delectatur anima, immo rapitur”

  The Ten Commandments

• “Hierosolymis, Deum immortalem! qui concursus hominum ad loca sacra fuit, [134] quae urbis religio, quae sepulcri, quae praesepii, quae crucis, quae monumentorum omnium, quibus velut exuviis mariti, Ecclesia sponsa delectatur?”

  Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities

• “Et opus animae rationalis praecipuum est verbum, et in quo maxime delectatur. ”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860

• “Nam is vicissim adeò scriptorum tuorum genio delectatur, ut ipse tibi plopemodum invideam. ”

  Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850

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